Well another New Year has begun. I suppose it officially began January 1st but for some reason today seems more like the beginning. Jason is back to work but as you can see I am not. 6 more days of winter break before I return. Today is kind of gray and rainy. I don't much care for gray or rainy skies :-(

What's new in my running world? Well I'm still training to run the Carlsbad Half Marathon on January 25th, looking forward to that, sort of...not because I'm not prepared. I feel like I can get through it alright, guess it's just the gray of the day...

What else in the world of running...I've actually reduced my running and am currenly suplementing with weight lifting, Pilates and Aerobics every other day in an effort to strengthen otherwise unused muscles and it seems to be going okay.

Not much else to report there, except the first points race of the year will be soon upon us, hoping to get some PR's this year, well I guess the beginning of every year is a new PR isn't it?

So for New Years and Running ....I Give Thanks!

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Happy Turkey Day! Well Happy Turkey Day, tomorrow :-) The plan is to run the local Turkey Trot but we might skip it and run here at home instead. It will save us a trip into the town it's run in and $40.00 in race entry fee's. It's usually a pretty fun and for us traditional way to begin Thanksgiving Day but it's been raining ALL Day here in good 'ol CA so in an effort to not have my baby girl and her uncle stuck out in the rain we may be skipping that particular Thanksgiving Day tradition. Otherwise all the other traditions apply, turkey and all the trimmings, including this year Walnut Pie, who knows and hopefully it won't rain :-)

Well today for family traditions and thanksgiving day...I Give Thanks!

I've missed my Yahoo 360 blog site so thought I'd come back for awhile. Lets see since I was last here my Jason and I have run the Big Sur Half Marathon, a local 10K and the Koeman Race for the Cure 5K. We did okay in all three of those races, considering. I had some type of thigh injury for a long time which made it painful to run, although much to the dismay of my husband I ran anyway, which was probably a stupid thing to do because it probably just took it longer to heal. Oh well...let's see what else...hmmmm...well we have a newly elected leader here in the states, President Elect Barack Obama. Truth be known I think he'll probably do alright, just not on some issues that I care deeply about, like abortion, stem cell research and just protection of life in general but what are you going to do the people have spoken. I've joined the Presidential Prayer team and everyday they email you a new prayer to pray for a smooth transition and just general goodness for our new president.

The Fresno State basesball team 2008 College Wrold Series Champions, my college alma mater just came from a visit to the White House where they got to meet President Bush. Frankly I think it'd be cool to meet any president but I can understand how some people wouldn't think that. Random piece of knowledge, did you know that President Bush's house in Crawford Texas is actually more green than Al Gore's house? According to Wikipedia anyway, a fact? which I found ever so slightly amusing :-)

Hmmm...things to be thankful for today are a nice morning walk/run with my husband and daughter. A beautiful weekend really here in CA with temps in the mid 70's. The beautiful color of the trees here where I live, all golden yellows, browns, orangy, reds etc...Fall Tree Colors, really nice and last night we had a really nice movie night, we saw Miracle on 34th Street. Oh and we had a nice 6 mile run yesterday too.

So for all this things I Give Thanks!